There's a reason NASA use purpose-built, radiation-hardened hardware in flight systems, a reason why they use in-house and real time flight system software, and a reason why they use older *proven* technology on the ground. It's because they don't want to have to sit there worrying about some rogue bit of software taking the kernel down at any point in the data chain, because mitigating against that after the fact, if even possible, would be obscenely expensive not only in terms of money, but also in lost data and transient data that just shoots through while the equipment is being repaired (or not, as the case may be). Commodity mobile phones aren't safe for flight science systems, end of story, because they're a: not hardened, b: not real time, c: not reliable and d: vulnerable to script kiddy software hacks.
Didn't Nokia release a rhomboid phone in 2003? (7600 3G. I'm sure they released one of a similar design for GSM before that as well.) Didn't they also release a trapezoid phone in 2006? (N-Gage QD).
I'm pretty certain we're going to see a new slew of lawsuits against Samsung if they do this, this time from Finland.
8% income tax and 9% sales tax?? Boo fucking hoo, you're getting off fucking light.
We're bent over and reamed here in the UK for 25% income tax (minimum with a ridiculous low threshold of £4800-something) and 20% VAT, and we're not even offered a fucking reacharound, so if you want to complain about something come live over here for a fucking year and pay over £6 for a gallon of gasoline.
Governor Brown is not acting in the interests of his constituents (and no, large corporations with an interest in individuals' data are not constituents), hence needs to be removed from office. Immediately.
...speaking for myself, and I don't know how many others reading might feel the same way, but $175 per machine per month (or however it's calculated, I only skimmed TFA) seems a little steep.
Right this very minute I can fire up eight cores with combined RAM of something like 14.5GB - notwithstanding the fact that we're talking six machines (four laptops (two dual core - one Atom, the other AMD E350, and two P4/2.0 and 1.6GHz), two desktops (one P4/2.66, the other an AMD Athlon64/2.4GHz), it's very scalable depending on what I'm doing and how fast I want it.
OK the Pentiums are *old* but they're still functional in a practical sense. I have older machines tasked for different things (a Thinkpad 760C running as a print server, for example) but I tend not to count or include them in my total computing power - they would suck up more in overhead than they would produce. Long gone are the days when a Pentium 120 made any sort of significant show in one of my clusters!
About my only limitation is the number of available power sockets. Cue the arguments for cloud utility with the cost of domestic electricity supply. The key word here is domestic - I have complete control on how much power is used. My AMD laptop at full draw drinks 3.5kWh per week if I leave it on crunching 24/7. That's equivalent to £1.78 per month - or around 1/100 the cost of a single core on a cloud node.
Coffee. Done that, keyboard survived - laptop didn't (Toshiba Equium A100 had a pint of fresh-off-the-boil Java and instantly started belching smoke like it was on fire). Honey. Done that, too. Keyboard didn't survive. Sugar syrup. Done that, too. Keyboard didn't survive, neither did the PS/2 port. Tap water. Guess what? Blew the keyboard and the PS/2 port.
Here's the best (and probably most surprising one if you're not up on when water and electricity *do* mix):
Rain water. Straight from the sky, into the guts of an IBM Thinkpad 760C (yes, pre-Lenovo) when I was out on the field and needed a decent sized screen for fairly instant reviewing of digital photos. Water went straight through the drain holes in the keyboard, settled on the motherboard... and the thing kept right on motoring. As it does to this day, as a multi print server.
A lockpick is a specialised tool designed specifically and solely for picking locks.
Someone who is carrying a lockpick is not going to perform a manicure. He's going to defeat a lock.
An Arduino is not a lockpick. It is, as demonstrated here, however able to be programmed to defeat an electronic lock with the aid of nothing more than a common electronic connector.
This is not a demonstration of the Arduino's utility as a lockpicking device; it is a demonstration of the failure of the electronic lock as a security device.
Not true. The Legion teach French during basic training. The *only* prerequisite to joining the Legion is some form of identity or birth certificate from your originating State (Question 3), after which you can serve under a declared name (Question 9). It is an excellent option for permanence though, at the end of which, if you serve the full three years, you'll be fluent in French *and* a citizen.
1. Draw all your money out of the bank. Destroy your cards afterward. You won't need those again. 2. Get off the grid. Ditch your cellphone. SIM and all. Don't bother to buy disposables. If you are doing a bug out, make sure you have a bug out bag with survival necessities (no, a netbook is not a survival necessity. A bascha is. A first aid kit is. A box of waterproof matches is. A supply of ready-to-eat food is. Water purification tablets and a container is. Maybe one or two changes of clothes as well, and pack for cold (several thin layers rather than one or two thick layers is better)). In fact, I'd say have a bug out bag ready anyway, because if you have to go in a hurry you're not going to have time to pack one. 3. Change your HABITS. If your usual work is salaried and stuck behind a desk, it's time to learn how to dig a field for cash-in-hand (see #2). You can be found if you stick to habit.
Importantly, though not one of the steps because this is going to be an ongoing thing, probably for the rest of your life; stay small. Keep yourself to yourself, stay quiet, do not confide anything of your past life to anyone. Do not make noise, do not get noticed. Be a stranger but be part of the crowd of strangers. The second you stick out like a sore thumb you will be found.
as far as I can make out, if the tool can lock more than three pins around the head or in features then it will certainly grip enough to turn. I've seen (but not played with) finework versions of the Gator, and can only assume that they work on the same principle. If you can find one with fine enough pins for the job (I would say generally not to use a socket more than twice the size of the head to ensure proper grip) then sure: if a Gator will grip a rusted screw head (it will) enough to loosen it (if there's enough of a slot left for the pins to engage then generally this will happen), then it'll deal with a Torx head.
(1)Except as provided by this section and section 15 below and subject to any other enactment, there is no implied term about the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of goods supplied under a contract of sale. (2)Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business, there is an implied term that the goods supplied under the contract are of satisfactory quality. (2A)For the purposes of this Act, goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking account of any description of the goods, the price (if relevant) and all the other relevant circumstances. (2B)For the purposes of this Act, the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following (among others) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods— (a)fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied, (b)appearance and finish, (c)freedom from minor defects, (d)safety, and (e)durability. (2C)The term implied by subsection (2) above does not extend to any matter making the quality of goods unsatisfactory— (a)which is specifically drawn to the buyer’s attention before the contract is made, (b)where the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made, which that examination ought to reveal, or (c)in the case of a contract for sale by sample, which would have been apparent on a reasonable examination of the sample.
emphases mine.
If a lock is described as a lock, and looks like a lock, is it unreasonable to expect it to perform as such? I don't think so. If a device is described as a lock and does not in fact perform that function, to the point where intervention is required, then is it unreasonable to assume that the defect is by design? I would say not.
Therefore, the effect of the failure of the product to perform *as advertised* constitutes a material breach of contract, one which should be pursued for restitution and remedy.
Is it? I've run businesses and if I know one thing about infidelity insurance it's this: they will not pay out if they can show that you saw it coming.
Q: What's the difference between a wage slave and a convicted thief?
A: One of them got caught.
My policy has always been the same: if I catch you thieving, YOU'RE GONE. BOOM! DONE. IMMEDIATELY. From that point you're a trespasser. If you want to fucking argue with that, I've got a bit of CCTV that'll very quickly find its way to Youtube. Do not fuck with me.
I use a Gator Grip and have done for fifteen years. Yes, they work, no I don't work for them. Yes they're fantastic value and no, they don't charge for replacement in case of bad workmanship, act of Dog, act of Idiot, or jamming. I've only ever had to replace the small one because I managed to break it trying to loosen a disc brake caliper.
Fuck your company, I'll go someplace else for my locks. Maybe to a company that knows the LAW when it comes to selling hardware that is FIT FOR PURPOSE!
Apart from that: Headline and TFS is sensationalist trash. No direct observation of the planet being devoured as suggested, we'll have to wait for the new L2 space telescope for even a possibility of that. All we have is an anomalous Li spectrum which **suggests**, in accordance with **currently accepted theory** of lithium propagation, that a planet **may** have just fallen into its parent star.
hogtie is an illegal restraint technique, as it's been associated with positional asphyxia. Most military and law enforcement agencies these days actively warn against using the hogtie as a restraint because of this.
That said, it is used on children by State workers in what is termed an acceptable use of restraint according to the MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements) guidelines. Quite how restraining a minor to the point where they cannot draw breath and go into terminal acidosis is beyond me. Having asked many State agencies in the UK via Freedom of Information Act requests, I am unable to get a straight answer from any of them regarding the number of deaths in custody associated with illegal use of restraint.
Perhaps someone on Slashdot might have better luck?
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mod parent up, made I chuckle.
There's a reason NASA use purpose-built, radiation-hardened hardware in flight systems, a reason why they use in-house and real time flight system software, and a reason why they use older *proven* technology on the ground. It's because they don't want to have to sit there worrying about some rogue bit of software taking the kernel down at any point in the data chain, because mitigating against that after the fact, if even possible, would be obscenely expensive not only in terms of money, but also in lost data and transient data that just shoots through while the equipment is being repaired (or not, as the case may be). Commodity mobile phones aren't safe for flight science systems, end of story, because they're a: not hardened, b: not real time, c: not reliable and d: vulnerable to script kiddy software hacks.
Didn't Nokia release a rhomboid phone in 2003? (7600 3G. I'm sure they released one of a similar design for GSM before that as well.)
Didn't they also release a trapezoid phone in 2006? (N-Gage QD).
I'm pretty certain we're going to see a new slew of lawsuits against Samsung if they do this, this time from Finland.
Mod parent up.
What's the difference between a Federal agent and God?
God doesn't think he's a Federal agent.
8% income tax and 9% sales tax?? Boo fucking hoo, you're getting off fucking light.
We're bent over and reamed here in the UK for 25% income tax (minimum with a ridiculous low threshold of £4800-something) and 20% VAT, and we're not even offered a fucking reacharound, so if you want to complain about something come live over here for a fucking year and pay over £6 for a gallon of gasoline.
Whiney little Yank cunt.
Governor Brown is not acting in the interests of his constituents (and no, large corporations with an interest in individuals' data are not constituents), hence needs to be removed from office. Immediately.
it's not mandatory if you do not drive.
Earth, Hitler. 1938.
So, submitter, how much did Smaxoglithkline pay you?
...speaking for myself, and I don't know how many others reading might feel the same way, but $175 per machine per month (or however it's calculated, I only skimmed TFA) seems a little steep.
Right this very minute I can fire up eight cores with combined RAM of something like 14.5GB - notwithstanding the fact that we're talking six machines (four laptops (two dual core - one Atom, the other AMD E350, and two P4/2.0 and 1.6GHz), two desktops (one P4/2.66, the other an AMD Athlon64/2.4GHz), it's very scalable depending on what I'm doing and how fast I want it.
OK the Pentiums are *old* but they're still functional in a practical sense. I have older machines tasked for different things (a Thinkpad 760C running as a print server, for example) but I tend not to count or include them in my total computing power - they would suck up more in overhead than they would produce. Long gone are the days when a Pentium 120 made any sort of significant show in one of my clusters!
About my only limitation is the number of available power sockets. Cue the arguments for cloud utility with the cost of domestic electricity supply. The key word here is domestic - I have complete control on how much power is used. My AMD laptop at full draw drinks 3.5kWh per week if I leave it on crunching 24/7. That's equivalent to £1.78 per month - or around 1/100 the cost of a single core on a cloud node.
Coffee. Done that, keyboard survived - laptop didn't (Toshiba Equium A100 had a pint of fresh-off-the-boil Java and instantly started belching smoke like it was on fire).
Honey. Done that, too. Keyboard didn't survive.
Sugar syrup. Done that, too. Keyboard didn't survive, neither did the PS/2 port.
Tap water. Guess what? Blew the keyboard and the PS/2 port.
Here's the best (and probably most surprising one if you're not up on when water and electricity *do* mix):
Rain water. Straight from the sky, into the guts of an IBM Thinkpad 760C (yes, pre-Lenovo) when I was out on the field and needed a decent sized screen for fairly instant reviewing of digital photos. Water went straight through the drain holes in the keyboard, settled on the motherboard... and the thing kept right on motoring. As it does to this day, as a multi print server.
I have a Keysonic silicon rubber keyboard (foldable, rollable, completely watertight and very, very rugged) that's been in my kit for years.
Sure. Add arson to your jacket. Make yourself even less employable once you have a declarable criminal conviction.
Makes no nevermind to me.
A lockpick is a specialised tool designed specifically and solely for picking locks.
Someone who is carrying a lockpick is not going to perform a manicure. He's going to defeat a lock.
An Arduino is not a lockpick. It is, as demonstrated here, however able to be programmed to defeat an electronic lock with the aid of nothing more than a common electronic connector.
This is not a demonstration of the Arduino's utility as a lockpicking device; it is a demonstration of the failure of the electronic lock as a security device.
Not true. The Legion teach French during basic training. The *only* prerequisite to joining the Legion is some form of identity or birth certificate from your originating State (Question 3), after which you can serve under a declared name (Question 9). It is an excellent option for permanence though, at the end of which, if you serve the full three years, you'll be fluent in French *and* a citizen.
1. Draw all your money out of the bank. Destroy your cards afterward. You won't need those again.
2. Get off the grid. Ditch your cellphone. SIM and all. Don't bother to buy disposables. If you are doing a bug out, make sure you have a bug out bag with survival necessities (no, a netbook is not a survival necessity. A bascha is. A first aid kit is. A box of waterproof matches is. A supply of ready-to-eat food is. Water purification tablets and a container is. Maybe one or two changes of clothes as well, and pack for cold (several thin layers rather than one or two thick layers is better)). In fact, I'd say have a bug out bag ready anyway, because if you have to go in a hurry you're not going to have time to pack one.
3. Change your HABITS. If your usual work is salaried and stuck behind a desk, it's time to learn how to dig a field for cash-in-hand (see #2). You can be found if you stick to habit.
Importantly, though not one of the steps because this is going to be an ongoing thing, probably for the rest of your life; stay small. Keep yourself to yourself, stay quiet, do not confide anything of your past life to anyone. Do not make noise, do not get noticed. Be a stranger but be part of the crowd of strangers. The second you stick out like a sore thumb you will be found.
as far as I can make out, if the tool can lock more than three pins around the head or in features then it will certainly grip enough to turn. I've seen (but not played with) finework versions of the Gator, and can only assume that they work on the same principle. If you can find one with fine enough pins for the job (I would say generally not to use a socket more than twice the size of the head to ensure proper grip) then sure: if a Gator will grip a rusted screw head (it will) enough to loosen it (if there's enough of a slot left for the pins to engage then generally this will happen), then it'll deal with a Torx head.
1979 (c. 54) provides:
14 Implied terms about quality or fitness.
(1)Except as provided by this section and section 15 below and subject to any other enactment, there is no implied term about the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of goods supplied under a contract of sale.
(2)Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business, there is an implied term that the goods supplied under the contract are of satisfactory quality.
(2A)For the purposes of this Act, goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking account of any description of the goods, the price (if relevant) and all the other relevant circumstances.
(2B)For the purposes of this Act, the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following (among others) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods—
(a)fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied,
(b)appearance and finish,
(c)freedom from minor defects,
(d)safety, and
(e)durability.
(2C)The term implied by subsection (2) above does not extend to any matter making the quality of goods unsatisfactory—
(a)which is specifically drawn to the buyer’s attention before the contract is made,
(b)where the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made, which that examination ought to reveal, or
(c)in the case of a contract for sale by sample, which would have been apparent on a reasonable examination of the sample.
emphases mine.
If a lock is described as a lock, and looks like a lock, is it unreasonable to expect it to perform as such? I don't think so.
If a device is described as a lock and does not in fact perform that function, to the point where intervention is required, then is it unreasonable to assume that the defect is by design? I would say not.
Therefore, the effect of the failure of the product to perform *as advertised* constitutes a material breach of contract, one which should be pursued for restitution and remedy.
DISCLAIMER: IAAL.
Is it? I've run businesses and if I know one thing about infidelity insurance it's this: they will not pay out if they can show that you saw it coming.
Q: What's the difference between a wage slave and a convicted thief?
A: One of them got caught.
My policy has always been the same: if I catch you thieving, YOU'RE GONE. BOOM! DONE. IMMEDIATELY. From that point you're a trespasser. If you want to fucking argue with that, I've got a bit of CCTV that'll very quickly find its way to Youtube. Do not fuck with me.
tech overkill.
I use a Gator Grip and have done for fifteen years. Yes, they work, no I don't work for them. Yes they're fantastic value and no, they don't charge for replacement in case of bad workmanship, act of Dog, act of Idiot, or jamming. I've only ever had to replace the small one because I managed to break it trying to loosen a disc brake caliper.
Fuck your company, I'll go someplace else for my locks. Maybe to a company that knows the LAW when it comes to selling hardware that is FIT FOR PURPOSE!
People steal from work! News at 11!
This is what infidelity insurance is for!
Sunspots don't generally cause spikes in the lithium spectrum.
Just sayin'.
Please don't tell me it was off for peer review!?
Apart from that: Headline and TFS is sensationalist trash. No direct observation of the planet being devoured as suggested, we'll have to wait for the new L2 space telescope for even a possibility of that. All we have is an anomalous Li spectrum which **suggests**, in accordance with **currently accepted theory** of lithium propagation, that a planet **may** have just fallen into its parent star.
...US$1,000 per MB.
They're getting a fucking good deal, there!
hogtie is an illegal restraint technique, as it's been associated with positional asphyxia. Most military and law enforcement agencies these days actively warn against using the hogtie as a restraint because of this.
That said, it is used on children by State workers in what is termed an acceptable use of restraint according to the MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements) guidelines. Quite how restraining a minor to the point where they cannot draw breath and go into terminal acidosis is beyond me. Having asked many State agencies in the UK via Freedom of Information Act requests, I am unable to get a straight answer from any of them regarding the number of deaths in custody associated with illegal use of restraint.
Perhaps someone on Slashdot might have better luck?